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2. The President shall have power to call extraordinary meetings of the 
Academy, at such time and place as he shall see fit. 
3. Seven Fellows shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business 
of every description, which may come before the Academy. 
4. The Recording Secretary shall notify the meetings of the Academy to 
the Fellows residing in Boston and the vicinity, and shall also cause the meet- 
ings to be advertised in the public papers, whenever he deems such further no- 
tice to be necessary. 
CHAPTER VII. 
Of Fellows. 
1. No person shall be elected a Fellow of the Academy, unless proposed 
and recommended by one or more Fellows, who shall subscribe their names 
to the recommendation upon the nomination list. The name shall stand on 
the nomination list at least during the interval between two statute meetings 
previous to the election. Three fourths of the votes given shall be necessary 
to constitute a majority for the admission of a member ; and when three 
fourths shall amount to less than seven, then seven votes shall be necessary. 
Should any person, on balloting, not be admitted, his name shall be removed 
from the nomination list ; but may at any future period be placed upon it again 
for a new nomination. 
2. Each Fellow residing in the State of Massachusetts shall pay annually 
two dollars to the Academy, and such additional sum, not exceeding three 
dollars, as the Academy at its annual meeting shall require. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
On Literary Performances. 
1. The Academy will never express its judgment on literary or scientific 
memoirs or performances submitted to it, or included in its printed transactions. 
